Hypertext Webster Gateway: "favored"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Favor \Fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Favored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Favoring}.] [Written also favour.] [Cf. OF. favorer,
favorir. See {Favor}, n.]
1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have
the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be
propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration
or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
O happy youth! and favored of the skies. --Pope.
He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab.
--2 Sam. xx.
11.
[The painter] has favored her squint admirably.
--Swift.
2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a
weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of;
as, the child favors his father.
The porter owned that the gentleman favored his
master. --Spectator.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Favored \Fa"vored\, a.
1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored
friend.
2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as,
well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
favored
adj 1: preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the
favored child" [syn: {favorite(a)}, {favourite(a)}, {pet},
{preferred}]
2: blessed with advantages; "she is more advantaged than her
cousin"; "born into the favored classes" [syn: {advantaged}]
3: supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all
must / like chimney sweepers come to dust" [syn: {fortunate},
{golden}]
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